For a year-end meeting of the association, Mr. Gunn recalled, "he thought they should show a reel of the best-ever commercials and we thought it would be a really nice reel to make."

A1 Chirac Snubs Blair A dispute between Britain and France has prompted President Jacques Chirac to back out of a traditional year-end meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

He dreamed up the annual dog art show five years ago to enliven the club's year-end meeting.

"We don't trade a lot," Ms. Brady said at the club's year-end meeting last month at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan.

The announcements were made yesterday at a year-end meeting with analysts and investors in New York.

These developments will present OPEC with enormous, perhaps insurmountable, challenges at its year-end meeting Wednesday in Vienna.

Mr. Brokaw said the Morris agency had formed its restructuring plans last month and decided to announce them at yesterday's year-end meeting in Manhattan.

"If it's externally induced, the system may not be able to withstand the consequences," Mr. Chambas explained in an interview here, as Ecowas gathered for its year-end meeting.

"We may have to go without Long Island the first couple of years," Rothenberg said between the year-end meetings that FIFA, the sport's world governing body, was staging at a hotel in midtown Manhattan.

That consensus set the tone of the year-end meeting here of the group's oil ministers, which was held with hardly a political ripple.